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What Might Have Been
Contributor(s): Roberts, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0753818736     ISBN-13: 9780753818732
Publisher: Phoenix
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2005
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Annotation: Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged on chance. Here, historian Andrew Roberts has assembled a team of his prominent colleagues, asking them to consider what might have happened if major world events had gone differently. Amanda Foreman, author of "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, " ponders what might have happened if Lincoln's Northern States of America and Queen Victoria's Great Britain had gone to war, as they so nearly did in 1861. George W. Bush's former White House adviser, David Frum, considers a President Al Gore's response to 9/11, while Conrad Black wonders how the U.S. might have entered World War II if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbor. Whether it's Stalin fleeing Moscow in 1941, as envisioned by Simon Sebag Montefiore, or Napoleon not being forced to retreat from it in 1812, as pictured by Adam Zamoyski, these essays posit a fascinating, sometimes horrifying parallel universe.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | World - General
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 909
Series: Phoenix Paperback Series
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.08" W x 7.78" (0.45 lbs) 208 pages
 
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A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.
'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary Review

Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have happened if major world events had gone differently? Each concentrating in the area in which they are a leading authority, historians as distinguished as Antonia Fraser (Gunpowder Plot), Norman Stone (Sarajevo 1914) and Anne Somerset (the Spanish Armada) consider: What if?

Robert Cowley demonstrates how nearly Britain won the American war of independence. Following her acclaimed GEORGIANA, Amanda Foreman muses on Lincoln's Northern States of America and Lord Palmerston's Great Britain going to war, as they so nearly did in 1861. Whether it's Stalin fleeing Moscow in 1941 (Simon Sebag Montefiore), or Napoleon not being forced to retreat from it in 1812 (Adam Zamoyski), the events covered here are important, world-changing ones.